15 Sights in Lima, Peru (with Map and Images)

The Historical Museum of Physical Sciences of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos was created on November 11, 1986 with the aim of exhibiting the pieces that were part of the physics cabinet that was previously located in the Casona of the University of San Marcos. The current Historical Museum of Physical Sciences is made up of four areas: the area of optics and modern physics, the area of mechanics of solids and fluids, the area of heat and waves, and the area of electricity and magnetism. The current purpose of the museum is to promote this discipline, as well as to publicize instruments that once allowed experiments to be carried out in this area of research. The museum is located on the third floor of the pavilion of the Faculty of Physical Sciences of the university, in the "University City".

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The Huaca of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos is an archaeological monument that is located within the main university campus —at one end— of the aforementioned university, which is why it is colloquially called "Huaca de San Marcos" or "Huaca San Marcos". It is a representative example of the architecture of the immense architectural complex of Maranga. The old name of "Huaca Aramburú" is due to the fact that it was located within the grounds of the hacienda of the same name, before the construction of the university city. Today, the so-called Mound 22, a smaller huaca located to the south, retains the old name "Aramburú".

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The monumental archaeological complex Mateo Salado, also known as Huaca Mateo Salado, is located in the district of Lima, on its border with the districts of Breña and Pueblo Libre. The monumentality of the five stepped and truncated pyramids that make it up, as well as the considerable extension of the complex, make it one of the most important archaeological complexes on the central coast of Peru. It is also one of the most representative expressions of the pre-Hispanic architecture of the Peruvian capital, also having the particularity of being located in the middle of the city.

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The Museo Nacional de Arqueología Antropología e Historia del Perú is the largest and oldest museum in Peru, located on Plaza Bolívar in the Pueblo Libre district of Lima. The museum houses more than 100,000 artifacts spanning the entire history of human occupation in what is now Peru. Highlights include the Raimondi Stele and the Tello Obelisk from Chavín de Huantar, and an impressive scale model of the Incan citadel, Machu Picchu. The museum is currently (2023) under restoration and very few rooms are open for visitors.

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The Casona of the National University of San Marcos, also known as the Cultural Centre of San Marcos, which operates in the building, is a large Spanish colonial building that hosts the cultural centre of the National University of San Marcos, located in the historic centre of Lima, Peru. The building, as well as its adjacent public space, known as the University Park, is part of the area and of the list of buildings of the historic center of Lima that were recognized as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, in 1988.

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The Corpus I archaeological complex, belonging to the Pando huacas complex, is located in the lower part of the Rimac Valley, exactly located in the third stage of the Pando urbanization, between Santa Francisca Romana, Santa Justina and Santa Gertrudis streets. This archaeological site is built on the basis of Maranga-type adobites and in its filling there is a high percentage of fragmentary decorations, in red, white and black, thus developing during the late intermediate.

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The Huaca Palomino archaeological site is an archaeological site located on the left side of the Rímac River, on the grounds, in the Palomino urbanization, third stage of the Palomino housing complex, at the height of block 27 of Venezuela Avenue in the district of Cercado de Lima, on the border with San Miguel. This archaeological site was part of the former Hacienda Pando owned by Don José de la Riva-Agüero.

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The Plaza San Martín is one of the most representative public spaces of the city of Lima, Peru. It is located at the ninth block of Colmena avenue, within the Historic Centre of Lima which was declared a World Heritage Site in 1988 by UNESCO. It is located near the Plaza Mayor of Lima and is connected to it by the Jiron de la Union. Its central monument gives homage to Peru's liberator, José de San Martín.

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The Larco Museum is a privately owned museum of pre-Columbian art, located in the Pueblo Libre District of Lima, Peru. The museum is housed in an 18th-century vice-royal building. It showcases chronological galleries that provide a thorough overview of 5,000 years of Peruvian pre-Columbian history. It is well known for its gallery of pre-Columbian erotic pottery.

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Ramón Castilla Square, formerly known as Union Square, is a public square in the historic centre of Lima, Peru. It is one of three squares through which Alfonso Ugarte Avenue passes—the others being Dos de Mayo and Bolognesi—and is also located at the intersection of Argentina and Emancipación avenues. It is named after former president Ramón Castilla.

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The Alameda de los Descalzos is an alameda located in Rímac District, Lima, Peru. One of the best-known places in the district, around it stand—among other buildings—the churches of Santa Liberata, El Patrocinio and Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles. Nearby is also the place where Micaela Villegas's Mill House was located. It measures about 450 m.

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The Electoral and Democracy Museum is a public museum created in 2005 and located at the headquarters of the National Jury of Elections (JNE) in the Historic Center of Lima. Its mission is to conserve, investigate, expose and disseminate part of the heritage related to the electoral history of Peru of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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The Lord of Miracles Museum is a museum dedicated to the devotion of the Lord of Miracles, painted in 1651 by an Angolan slave. Its headquarters are located within the complex of the Monastery of Nazarenas located in the Huancavelica jirón of the historic center of the city of Lima. It was inaugurated on October 17, 2014.

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The Quinta de Presa is a French-style country mansion built in the 18th century during the government of the then viceroy of Peru, Manuel de Amat y Junyent. It comprises a constructed area of 15,159 square metres (163,170 sq ft). It is located in the jirón Chira of the Rímac district, Lima, Peru.

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The Sanctuary of Saint Rose of Lima is a sanctuary dedicated to Saint Rose of Lima. It is located in the remains of Oliva's house, including the well used by the family, which serves as a highlight of the convent among visitors.

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